Alexander Shulgin Quotes
I'm called the Godfather of Ecstacy because I published for the first time information about its effects in man. I feel content with the title. MDMA is a beautiful drug...”
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I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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I'm an atheist and a humanist, so I have no desire to evangelize anyone.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.
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If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.
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I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world.
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A lot of people look at playing overseas as a step down from the NBA. And, yes it is a step down from the NBA money-wise, but there is just as good of talent overseas as in the NBA. Not better talent.
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The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.
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I feel very comfortable with my trajectory because I do have a life; I can go on the subway, you know? And I've been able to do that my entire career, and I have friends who are huge movie stars and can't go on the subway, and I feel like that sucks.
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There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.
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Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.
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I think penguins are cute.
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Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.
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A study last year showed that the page you turn to first in the newspaper can be a predictor of how long you will live. No surprise, turning first to the Comics Pages prolongs your life.
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The Internet, like all intellectual technologies has a trade off. As we train our brains to use it, as we adapt to the environment of the internet, which is an environment of kind of constant immersion and information and constant distractions, interruptions, juggling lots of messages, lots of bits of information.
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Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
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We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners.
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I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.
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I'm called the Godfather of Ecstacy because I published for the first time information about its effects in man. I feel content with the title. MDMA is a beautiful drug...”
